{"id":23096,"date":"2013-08-15T11:39:19","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T15:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=23096"},"modified":"2013-08-15T11:39:19","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T15:39:19","slug":"a-history-of-beards-in-the-workplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2013\/08\/15\/a-history-of-beards-in-the-workplace\/","title":{"rendered":"A history of beards in the workplace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Excerpt<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>BBC presenter Jeremy Paxman has prompted much debate on social media with his recent decision to dodge the shaving kit. But why do people feel so strongly about beards?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Facial hair for the past century has been thought to reflect a suspicious streak of individuality and defiance,&#8221; says Christopher Oldstone-Moore, a history lecturer at Ohio&#8217;s Wright State University.<\/p>\n<p>The author of &#8220;The Beard Movement in Victorian Britain&#8221; argues that shaving has been &#8220;the norm&#8221; since the 17th Century.<\/p>\n<p>Read more from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-23693316\" target=\"_blank\">BBC News Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt BBC presenter Jeremy Paxman has prompted much debate on social media with his recent decision to dodge the shaving kit. But why do people feel so strongly about beards? &#8220;Facial hair for the past century has been thought to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2013\/08\/15\/a-history-of-beards-in-the-workplace\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[714,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-the-media","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23096"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23104,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23096\/revisions\/23104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}